A couple weeks after the eTBLAST report, Nature covered the story, quoting one of the authors of original papers, ( Ian Mudway, a toxicologist at the King's College London) as saying, "the article is a veritable patchwork of other people's work, word for word, grammatical error for grammatical error." Nature also stated that Ebtekar had not replied to its emails. The review paper, on cytokines and air pollution, was published in 2006 in the Iran Journal of Allergy Asthma Immunology (IJAAI) 5 47-56:2006. On 7 October 2008, eTBLAST, a text similarity search engine on MEDLINE database, noted that 85% of a review paper published by Masoumeh Ebtekar came from several previously published articles.
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Įbtekar was promoted to full Professorship in Jan 2019 and elected as Immunology & Allergy Association in 2018. Ebtekar is a member of several research board committees and a reviewer for two international and four national immunology journals. In her speech to the Eleventh International Congress of Immunology in Tehran, she mentioned the detrimental effect of sanctions on the advancement of science in Iran and noted that sanctions should not be directed against nations. She has currently filed 72 ISI scientific articles in the field of immunology in Scopus in her name. Ebtekar currently teaches cytokines, viral immunology, HIV vaccines, aging, immunology of the nervous system and psychoneuroimmunology. As Professor of Immunology, she has taught, supervised and advised PhD and MSc students. They have two children.Įbtekar has served as faculty member at Tarbiat Modares University, which is a postgraduate academic center located in Tehran. Ebtekar is married to Seyyed Mohammad Hashemi who is a businessman in the private sector. Įbtekar holds a BSc degree in laboratory science from Shahid Beheshti University, a MSc and PhD in immunology from Tarbiat Modares University in 1995, where she still teaches. Later after graduation as a student, she became a supporter of the political Islam of Ali Shariati and began wearing a traditional black chador covering everything except her face. During her six years in Philadelphia, she developed "near-perfect, American-accented English." Returning to Iran she enrolled in Iranzamin (Tehran International School). Ebtekar's father studied at the University of Pennsylvania, and she lived with her parents in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, just outside Philadelphia. Her first name translates to "Innocent Water Lily" in English.
Education and family Įbtekar was born in Tehran as Masoumeh, Niloufar Ebtekar in a middle-class family. Later she became the head of the Environment Protection Organization of Iran during the administration of President Mohammad Khatami, and was a city councilwoman of Tehran from 2007 to 2013. She is a full professor at Tarbiat Modares University in the School of Medical Sciences, Immunology Department.Įbtekar was nicknamed "Mary", when she was the spokeswoman of the students who took hostages and occupied the US Embassy in 1979. She held the same level of office from 2013 to 2017. She previously headed Department of Environment from 1997 to 2005, making her the first female member in the cabinet of Iran since 1979 and the third in history. Masoumeh Ebtekar ( Persian: معصومه ابتکار born 21 September 1960) was the former Vice President of Iran for Women and Family Affairs, from August 9, 2017, to September 1, 2021.
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